This year marks the 150th anniversary of Impressionism’s birth in 1874, when 31 artists, including Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, and Berthe Morisot, staged an exhibition that shocked Paris. Monet’s ...

On a November morning in 1872, Claude Monet set up his easel and began furiously painting the foggy scene beyond his hotel balcony. As a Normandy native, Monet knew Le Havre’s harbor well, but he ...

The 15 April 1874 has a good claim to be the founding moment of modern art. A group of 31 artists, who'd often been rejected by the official Paris Salon, had decided to stage their own show at 35 ...

Impressionism is some of the most beloved art in the world, and Seattle Art Museum invites visitors to experience it through ...

The 150th anniversary of the first Impressionism exhibition will be marked with an ambitious show that opens this month in Paris at the Musée d’Orsay, owner of the world’s finest collection of these ...

It’s hard to believe that Monet, Degas and Renoir once faced hostility from the art world. Alastair Sooke reveals how one man changed everything. Few movements in the history of art feel as familiar ...

Clowning around: Toulouse-Lautrec’s ‘The Clown Cha-U-Kao’ (1895), showing a faux-Chinese nightclub performer arm-in-arm with her girlfriend (The Courtauld) Is there much further mileage in ...

It was in 1991-92, while studying at École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, that Atul Dodiya first saw Impressionist masterpieces by artists such as Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas ...

In the summer of 1889, a 29-year-old American artist with an unusual name, Childe Hassam, rented a studio in Paris’ Montmartre district. Littering the space were unsold canvases abandoned by the ...

PURE impressionism in literary criticism has of late years grown into great favor, both among critics themselves and with the public. The essentials of a good critic — so the rubric has come to run — ...